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Merchant sailors are automatically eligible for deferment from the draft, and can be sure of earning much more pay per month, once they have gone to sea, than buck privates. During the four month preliminary training period they will receive $50 a month, and once on a merchant ship basic pay, plus overtime, war bonuses, and harbor bonuses, adds up to well over one hundred dollars...
...Army Basic Training, Navy Basic Training and three advanced Army courses swell to a total of eight the number of schools which may be assigned to Harvard. Already announced have been engineers, Quartermaster Corps, and Navigation...
Other Ivy League colleges also received their allotment of schools. Dartmouth will have a basic Navy course. Yale will receive an inspection for a basic Army course and a pre-medical course, while Princeton will be inspected for basic Army, Area and Language, and premedical courses...
Applicable in all probability to all aviation cadets who have not yet reached the advanced level of instruction, the new program calls for an initial period of two months processing and basic raining at an air force basic training center...
...Tony's athletic history has been a series of spurts to the top. Serving as '39 baseball captain, he was picked up by a talent scout and shipped at Louisville, where he got his "basic." Too good for a minor league club, Lupien was bought by a Red Sox farm and then, when Al Flair got drafted, "Tony" took his place at first base...